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Originally posted by woodstock:
But you don't get it... Wertham wouldn't even have wrote that crap if Superman wasn't created! There would be no industry for him to destroy!
If it wasn't Superman who kicked off the comics industry, it would have been another character. And EC still would have done the horror comics that set Wertham on his rampage in the first place.

I'm probably one of the biggest Superman fans around, but even I'm not shortsighted enough to think the comics industry wouldn't exist without him. They existed before Superman and would have existed without him. It just would have been a different character who would have set the industry ablaze. Either way, EC's line of comics would have remained the same, and Wertham would have still gone after the comics industry. Besides, as popular as Superman was, that popularity did nothing to counteract the "comics are for kids" stigma Wertham helped to create with his diatribes. That crippling blow to the industry, in my mind, vastly outweighs anything Siegel and Shuster did.